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By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Senate President Tito Sotto on Thursday, May 24, reiterated the proposal to revive the death penalty has more chances of being approved in the Upper House if it was to be limited only to those convicted of high-level drug trafficking. He said the same could not be said of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption proposal to include rebellion, terrorism and plunder on the list of crimes penalized by death. […]
Hahadlangan ng Department of Justice ang anumang hakbang upang makadalo si Senadora Leila De Lima sa pagdinig ng Senado ukol sa death penalty bill. Sinabi ni DOJ Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II, limitado lamang ang mga karapatan at pribelihiyo nito dahil nakakulong ito. Una nang iginiit ni De Lima noong mga nakaraang linggo na hangad niyang makadalo sa mga deliberasyon sa ilang mahahalagang panukala dahil trabaho umano niya ito bilang mambabatas kahit pa siya ay nakakulong. […]
(Eagle News) — Mas nakararaming Pilipino ang pabor sa pagbubuhay sa parusang kamatayan sa mga karumal-dumal na krimeng may kaugnayan sa iligal na droga, batay sa pinakahuling survey ng Social Weather Stations (SWS). Sa 1,200 respondents, 61% ang sang-ayon sa death penalty bill. Binubuo ito ng 36% ‘strongly approve’ at 24% ‘somewhat approve.’ Samantala, 23% naman ang hindi sang-ayon, na binubuo ng 16% ‘strongly disapprove’ at 7% ‘somewhat disapprove.’ Labing-anim na porsiyento naman ang hindi […]
(Eagle News) — Ibinunyag ni House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez na magkakaroon ng ikalawang bugso ng balasahan sa kamara sa buwan ng Mayo. Sinabi ni Alvarez na paunang balasahan pa lamang ang nangyari kagabi at hinihintay pa ng house leadership ang mga nominee na isusumite ng mga partido kapalit ng mga naunang sinibak. Magugunitang inalisan ng puwesto sa Kamara at committee chairmanships ang mga kongresistang bumoto laban sa death penalty bill. https://youtu.be/6_mVzJJ7qCU
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Buhay Party-List Representative Lito Atienza asked the Senate to forget about the death penalty bill as the law cannot be applied to those charged under the Duterte administration. According to Atienza’s estimation, if the death penalty bill is passed, the execution of the first criminal to be sentenced with death will be around 2022, the end of President Duterte’s term. “Even assuming the Senate caves in, and approves its […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Pampanga Representative and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may be removed from her Deputy Speaker status after voting “no” to the passage of the bill reimposing death penalty. Aside from Rep. Arroyo, 10 more lawmakers may be removed from the chairmanship of various House committees for opposing the measure. In the vote of the House of Representatives on the third and final reading of the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Several members of the Liberal Party are ready to leave the “super majority” bloc in the House of Representatives allegedly because of the vote on the revival of the death penalty. Based on the Liberal Party caucus, the party deferred its decision to bolt from the “super majority” only after the voting on death penalty. “Ang Liberal Party, ganun ang aming proseso. We have to discuss, we have to […]
